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Angelique Zuluaga Soprano
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Biography Soprano Angelique Zuluaga has
performed early music, oratorio, chamber and
contemporary music throughout the U.S. and South
America and can be found frequently collaborating with
composers in new works. Recent and upcoming concerts
include soprano soloist with the Indianapolis Baroque
Orchestra's 2011 Bach Project, soloist in Ode to St. Cecilia (G.F.
Handel) and
Serenade to Music (Vaughan
Williams) at the 2011 Carmel Bach Festival, the U.S.
premiere of Joni Greene's Message In Blue and guest soloist
with the Colombian ensemble Musica Ficta at the 2012
Cartagena International Music Festival. Past performances include soloist in Handel's Ode to St. Cecilia at Carnegie Hall's Weill Insitute young artist concert with the orchestra of St. Luke's under the direction of Ton Koopman. Collaboration with Aguavá New Music Studio in the world premiere of Aurelio De La Vega’s Variacion del Recuerdo at the Coolidge auditorium of Library of Congress, as well as soloist in J.S. Bach’s Matthäus-Passion with the Youth Orchestra of the Americas in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro under the direction of Kent Nagano & David Robert Coleman. Ms Zuluaga's interest in contemporary music has also lead her to commission a variety of pieces, most recently Lucretia, a dramatic song cycle for soprano and piano trio by Joni Greene which recently won an ASCAP and Lotte Lehmann Foundation award. Other comissions include Las Cuerdas Del Titiritero a children's pocket opera written by composer Gerardo Dirié for period instruments and premiered by the ensemble Fénix De Los Ingenios , an early music ensemble devoted to Iberian-American literature and music she founded and co-directs. Upcoming commissions include Coplas Andinas, a song cycle for soprano and harp by Colombian composer Alba Potes. Additionally in demand as an ensemble singer, Ms Zuluaga is in her fifth season with the Carmel Bach Festival and has performed under such directors as Paul Hillier, Raymond Leppard, and John Poole. Winner of Indiana University's 2006 Latin American Fellowship, she also holds awards, grants and scholarships for her performance, research and concert programming from the Early Music Insitute of Indiana University, The Latin American Music Center of Indiana University, Dorothy Quinn Encouragement Award (Metropolitan Opera Council), the Universidad Del Valle National Art Prizes, and grants from the Bloomington Area Arts Council, Brown County Community Foundation and Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and United States Universities. Ms. Zuluaga began her singing
career in Further studies in music lead her
to the Jacobs School of Music and Early Music
Institute at
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